[syslinux] 6.01-pre 4 no timeout when using serial

Gert Cuykens gert.cuykens at gmail.com
Sat Jun 29 22:12:15 PDT 2013


Could it be that syslinux is waiting for ever if you use serial mode?

SERIAL 0 115200
DEFAULT ramdisk
LABEL ramdisk
  kernel /casper/vmlinuz
  append boot=casper toram initrd=/casper/initrd.img nomodeset console=ttyS0
LABEL isotest
  kernel /casper/vmlinuz
  append boot=casper integrity-check initrd=/casper/initrd.img
nomodeset console=ttyS0
LABEL memtest
  kernel /install/memtest
  append -
LABEL disk
  localboot 0x80
  append -
LABEL reboot
  com32 reboot.c32
LABEL halt
  com32 poweroff.c32
DISPLAY isolinux.txt
TIMEOUT 300
PROMPT 1

sudo qemu -netdev tap,id=tap0 -device
virtio-net-pci,netdev=tap0,id=vth0 -drive
file=ubuntu.iso,media=cdrom,cache=none,if=ide -boot d -m 1024
-parallel none -nographic -serial file:/tmp/qemu-output.log


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